I registered my first rose seedling today. 'Kindred Ice', now forever known as 'Rose Tutu', has just been registered with ICRA-Roses. Now I have to work out what to do next . It is still some time away from being released and fully tested but at least now its name is secure and its pressence is officially recognised... is kind of a strange feeling

Congratulations Simon, well done.Could you please outline the steps necessary to register a rose and what is the cost. I am sure there are a lot of roses out there bred by interested hobby pollinators that don't make it to registration.

You need to apply for a breeder code which you can do by clicking on 'Apply for Authorization'. Your breeder code is usually the first three letters of your surname. Mine is VOO. This is also free. My experience with the people running it is that they are very efficient and quick to turn around new authorisations.

Once you get your authorisation you can submit a registration. You sign in first and this tansfers all the personal details about yourself into the new submission automatically so you just have to fill in the details relevant to your rose.

I found a couple of things confusing. Here are the explanations others have given me to help me understand the process.

The denomination name: This is the official registration name. It is usually a name made up of your breeder code as the prefix with some kind of a truncation of the name you want to give your rose following the breeder code prefix. For example I wanted my rose to be called 'Rose Tutu'. The official registration name I chose is 'VOOtutu'. It is meant bear some semblance to a real word. This helps to identify a rose with a breeder and also prevents someone from selling your rose under this official name because they usually don't make a lot of sense and would be hard to market under such a name (which does nothing to protect your rose from being sold under an entirely different name. All registering does is associate a rose with a name and prevent others from using that name).

Synonyms: If you look at the recent approvals section of this website you will see the first two columns list the denomination name (as explained above) and the Exhibition name. If you are filling out the new submissions form there is no reference to an exhibition name. There is, however, three places to fill in synonyms and I have found out this is the exhibition name whcih needs to be linked to the country where this synonym is used. So when I filled this in I wrote 'Rose Tutu' in the first synonym field and Australia as the country in which it will be known as this. Should exhibitors want to exhibit my rose they use the official exhibition name (even though I have no intention of breeding exhibition-style roses).

The rest is pretty self explanatory and straight forward. You just choose the options that describe your rose the closest and then hit submit and it's done.

That's about it. This process has nothing to do with trade marking or the PBR process. Advice I have received from Paul Barden is that if you are wanting to sell your roses through the larger growers they sometimes will not even look at your roses if they are already registered and will want to do this themselves through their marketting dept. and through negotiation with the breeder. This is not what I want so I went and did it myself. Maybe sometime down the track people might seek me out and want to distribute my roses exclusively in which case they will negotiate the purchase of the variety from me based on projected sales or work out some royalty system. This is a long way down the track for me and I don't understand it fully yet myself. This registering process is just an official way of recording a name with a rose with a breeder and record details of the rose for identification purposes down the track.

Well... it seems I haven't done it.. yet! It seems Australian hybridisers cannot register their roses through the above link at all. According to Laurie Newman, who contacted me through the week to let me know of my error, I am meant to go through him to get registration forms because Australia has an agreement with ICRA that we will take care of our own rose registrations and then pass these onto to ICRA. So, to be clear, we do NOT go to the link above to register our roses. We must go to Laurie Newman. I am in the process of talking with him to see if the necessary forms and contact details can be placed on the Australia Rose Breeders Association website. I have the forms here and can host them for people here but will see if Laurie approves of this first. So... looks like my little 'Rose Tutu' isn't registered yet after all!

Keep on it Simon, I have a lot of seed to process this year and might end up with something really good.

Most are those terrible unhealthy HT's that have to be cut and vased to look really fantastic. Have seen some really nice floral arrangements lately so am still growing them. My collection of Australian bred HT's is growing and am hoping to have most of them despite having great difficulty finding the older ones. Any help would be appreciated. We don't want all those PBR Foreigners so think Aussie and breed some good ones ourselves.